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. 2016 Dec;22(12):2178-2180.
doi: 10.3201/eid2212.160677.

Tuberculosis-Associated Death among Adult Wild Boars, Spain, 2009-2014

Jose A Barasona, Pelayo Acevedo, Iratxe Diez-Delgado, Joao Queiros, Ricardo Carrasco-García, Christian Gortazar, Joaquín Vicente

Tuberculosis-Associated Death among Adult Wild Boars, Spain, 2009-2014

Jose A Barasona et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

We investigated adult Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) survival and death in 2 tuberculosis-endemic populations with different harvest pressure in Spain. Overall, tuberculosis accounted for 30% of total deaths. Increased survival in protected areas has direct implications for wild boar management and tuberculosis control.

Keywords: Disease control; GPS monitoring; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; TB; bacteria; disease-related mortality; geographic information systems; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; wild boar; wildlife surveillance; zoonoses.

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Total survival probability and the main causes of death among wild boars (Sus scrofa), Spain, 2009–2014. A) Kaplan-Meier survival curve representing the proportion of adult wild boars alive over time for all the animals studied. B) Percentage of each cause of death among wild boars (i.e., when considering only all dead animals).
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